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Warming Up Tuesday
Jun. 3rd, 2025 11:52 pmYeah, the heat slowly but surely crept up today...everywhere but in the building where I work, as that seems permanently cold. *shakehead* Granted, I'm pretty sure that's partly because the AC is on (the hallways definitely feel AC cold), but it is kind of weird that it's the beginning of June and I still need a sweater in there at least part of the day. Ah well, I have plenty of light sweaters I can bring with me and then stuff in my bag for the ride home... Anyway, here's the write-up of my day --
Work – A slightly-busier day than yesterday, if only because we actually had some credit card calls (a couple of pledge updates and a payment my coworker took because I was in the bathroom at the time), plus we had to fight with the app that allows us to look at the stuff our processors have scanned in because my coworker couldn’t log in (took their IT guy calling us to fix the issue). But once that was all resolved, most of the rest of the day was me finding roster maintenance tasks to do (like going through the obituaries). There’s just not a lot happening right at the moment! Which does lead to some boring days...but as I have said repeatedly, I strongly prefer “boring” to “stressful.” I’ll find ways to fill the time! And maybe tomorrow will be a little busier, we’ll see. (Watch, I’ll suddenly be thrust into a “careful what you wish for” situation and it’ll be SUPER busy for no good reason tomorrow...)
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – got back on the bike again tonight to pedal my way through:
A) The end of “D&D But... Everyone's A Kobold LIVE! | Oxventure!” The final half-hour of the Adventure To Find The Sour Dindle Leaf saw –
I. Andy’s “Velocity The Weird” and Johnny’s “Meg The Bad Influence” get a nat 20 each to convince the villagers (who saw the kobolds and were like “huh, they look kind of like the shit we worship, we should talk to them”) to first cover themselves in glue and smash themselves together into a giant ball (Andy), and then cover their mouths and noses with the glue (Johnny). This resulted in both a giant pile of glued-up villager corpses, and a bunch of dead kobolds, as Meg was so convincing that they accidentally convinced all of their brethren EXCEPT Velocity to also glue their noses and mouth shut (bye bye Ellen’s “Gortash The Quiet,” who lasted longest among the original set!). And then Meg went ahead and snapped Velocity’s neck just to finish the “total party kill” job. XD
II. The kobolds try to get into the apothecary, which smelled of the leaves they needed, which notably featured Ellen’s new kobold “Discharge the Ceaseless” relentlessly whacking away on the lock with a rock; Jane’s new kobold (I don’t recall the name, she didn’t last long) noticing an open window next to the door –
And then Andy’s new “kobold” EGBERT THE CARELESS rocking up and throwing a bomb at the problem before leaving. XD Luke immediately made it a proper Egbert cameo, because how could you not? I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before, but I headcanon this as one of Egbert’s adventures before he joined up with the Oxventure Guild in episode 2 – although I’m undecided as to if he was trying to help the kobolds get into the building, or noticed the giant pile of glued corpses and thought (semi-correctly) that the kobolds had done that and should probably be put down. XD Either way, he tossed his bomb, door got blown off the hinges, and all the kobolds died for a PROPER TPK. XD “Consequences for everyone but me!” as Andy was VERY keen to say. XD
III. And the next group of kobolds searching the apothecary with the usual amount of kobold care (I.E., none), and – after some misadventures (including one inventive kobold (Andy) rocketing himself into the ceiling on extendo-legs, and another quizzical kobold (Ellen) thinking herself to death trying to read a book) – finding the leaf and running it back to the cave to force it down Gitvis’s gullet! She promptly did a big fart and felt all better. XD Delightful stuff – I’m glad I rewatched it, it was a lot of fun.
B) The entirety of “Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion Reacts to Horny Comments” by IGN! A very short video of Neil Newbon reading people’s comments about the infamous “sex with Halsin in bear form” sex scene and how thirsty they are for his character Astarion, all in the Astarion voice. Very weird and goofy, but not a bad way to fill out the final few minutes of my workout. XD
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice had a little confrontation with the two ghouls in the sitting room where she ended up at the end of yesterday’s segment today, with one attempting to knife her while the other threatened her with a poker. I’d originally had Alice feed on both women during this segment (drinking from the knife-wielder to stop her trying to stab her, and then from the poker-wielder after the woman volunteered some blood to avoid having it taken forcibly), but after writing Alice noting how thin and fragile the one trying to stab her felt in her grip...well, it just felt like having her then drink their blood was a little too mean. So she just talked to them this time – assuring them that she meant no harm (they seemed dubious), asking if they’d seen Grout recently (nope), and letting them know the way outside was clear if they wanted to escape (they were immediately like “no thanks, we’re good here,” to Alice’s grief). And asking their names, which yielded the numbers “6768” (poker) and “6789” (knife). Alice is pretty much set on trying to kill Grout once she finds him now, as you might expect. *nods* I left off with her preparing to listen to another one of Grout’s audiotapes – tomorrow, we hear the tape and see her reaction! I bet you she’s not going to like it!
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check plus, as I managed to get in two videos tonight instead of just one –
A) First up, we had “SIMS 4 FAIRIES PACK OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED! (+ New World Details)” by onlyabidoang! Featuring Abi talking about the confirmation of the “fairy” occult coming to Sims 4 as per a teaser showing a fairy house with a party going on inside at the end of their latest livestream; the “Something Is Growing” website EA put up that’s been gradually releasing new info about the pack over the past couple of days (such as the world included being called Innisgreen, which will have three neighborhoods, including an enchanted forest); and his own thoughts about what features the new occult life state might have (he’s pretty sure it’ll feature a proper skill tree, and he HOPES that fairies in this generation of the game will have more of a connection to gardening and less of a tendency to pull annoying pranks, like they did in The Sims 3: Supernatural. And also that the small form gets a proper showing instead of just being a glowing ball of light. And that fairies will have the ability to properly fly instead of just teleport around. ...Abi, you DO remember this is EA, right?) It was an interesting little sum-up of what we know so far, what we think we know, and what he wants out of the new pack – though he was very clear that they should really be fixing some of the base game bugs, like “weather effects inside houses” and “save gave corruption,” first. *nods* Yeah, that WOULD be really nice, wouldn’t it? But again, EA… (Well, that and fixing bugs DOES take time, sadly.)
B) And second up, we had “Fun With Shorts: Farther Faster Safer” by Josh Way! A classic “this is not-so-secretly an ad for a product” short with a narrator talking a mile a minute about new faster and safer ways to go across the country (starting with cross-country trains before moving on to various types of airplanes, including a big old seaplane) and VERY PROMINENT shots of all these amazing vehicles being lubricated with Pennzoil Products. XD Fortunately, Josh was on hand to make the whole experience a little more amusing: comparing Los Angeles City Hall to an architectural LEGO set (and honestly, I HAVE seen LEGO sets that look like the City Hall pictured in the short); constantly declaring that all the planes on display were delayed for some reason; pretending to struggle to get a word in edgewise when the narrator kept going on and on about how awesome the seaplane was; and comparing the airplane lubricator guys at the end to ice cream truck salesmen (the outfits DID give that vibe)! Good stuff – always nice to see another short back on his channel! I’m fine with his movie reviews, but the riffs are why I stay. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there was nothing to do over on Valice Multiverse, but I was able to ALMOST complete my Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) queue! We have:
A) A reblog of a cool screenshot of the Crockery from A:MR for Wednesday
B) A reblog of a gifset of Emily spinning around right before the climatic wedding at the end of Corpse Bride for Thursday
C) A reblog of some old Smiler OC fanart from “shenanigansz” that I liked for Friday
D) And a reblog of one of my old Song Saturday posts, featuring Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars,” for Saturday! This is the one that’s not QUITE done, as I didn’t get a chance to finish talking about how it’s now Valicer, nor the updated tags, but I figure I can do that tomorrow. :p
So yeah – very much ahead of the game there! And I’m thinking next week will be the Mega Ghostbusters AU, once I get some more stuff to go with it. *nods*
Other: Another nice day meant another afternoon playing beanbags after I got home from work – and unfortunately, I did worse today, being unable to win a single game despite finally starting to throw better. :( Dad had a pretty decent day by contrast, while Mom had a bad start but came back strong with back-to-back wins – she’s been throwing REALLY well lately, it’s kind of weird. XD Anyway, final scores were me 2-3-3; Dad W-2-2; and Mom 3-W-W. Hopefully if we play tomorrow (it’s supposed to be humid and possibly smoky from the Canadian wildfires) I’ll be able to claim one of those Ws for myself again!
*nods* Not too shabby, I suppose! And now I have to go to bed before my brain gets too keyed up to sleep, as it is trying to do right now. *shakehead* Night all!
Work – A slightly-busier day than yesterday, if only because we actually had some credit card calls (a couple of pledge updates and a payment my coworker took because I was in the bathroom at the time), plus we had to fight with the app that allows us to look at the stuff our processors have scanned in because my coworker couldn’t log in (took their IT guy calling us to fix the issue). But once that was all resolved, most of the rest of the day was me finding roster maintenance tasks to do (like going through the obituaries). There’s just not a lot happening right at the moment! Which does lead to some boring days...but as I have said repeatedly, I strongly prefer “boring” to “stressful.” I’ll find ways to fill the time! And maybe tomorrow will be a little busier, we’ll see. (Watch, I’ll suddenly be thrust into a “careful what you wish for” situation and it’ll be SUPER busy for no good reason tomorrow...)
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – got back on the bike again tonight to pedal my way through:
A) The end of “D&D But... Everyone's A Kobold LIVE! | Oxventure!” The final half-hour of the Adventure To Find The Sour Dindle Leaf saw –
I. Andy’s “Velocity The Weird” and Johnny’s “Meg The Bad Influence” get a nat 20 each to convince the villagers (who saw the kobolds and were like “huh, they look kind of like the shit we worship, we should talk to them”) to first cover themselves in glue and smash themselves together into a giant ball (Andy), and then cover their mouths and noses with the glue (Johnny). This resulted in both a giant pile of glued-up villager corpses, and a bunch of dead kobolds, as Meg was so convincing that they accidentally convinced all of their brethren EXCEPT Velocity to also glue their noses and mouth shut (bye bye Ellen’s “Gortash The Quiet,” who lasted longest among the original set!). And then Meg went ahead and snapped Velocity’s neck just to finish the “total party kill” job. XD
II. The kobolds try to get into the apothecary, which smelled of the leaves they needed, which notably featured Ellen’s new kobold “Discharge the Ceaseless” relentlessly whacking away on the lock with a rock; Jane’s new kobold (I don’t recall the name, she didn’t last long) noticing an open window next to the door –
And then Andy’s new “kobold” EGBERT THE CARELESS rocking up and throwing a bomb at the problem before leaving. XD Luke immediately made it a proper Egbert cameo, because how could you not? I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before, but I headcanon this as one of Egbert’s adventures before he joined up with the Oxventure Guild in episode 2 – although I’m undecided as to if he was trying to help the kobolds get into the building, or noticed the giant pile of glued corpses and thought (semi-correctly) that the kobolds had done that and should probably be put down. XD Either way, he tossed his bomb, door got blown off the hinges, and all the kobolds died for a PROPER TPK. XD “Consequences for everyone but me!” as Andy was VERY keen to say. XD
III. And the next group of kobolds searching the apothecary with the usual amount of kobold care (I.E., none), and – after some misadventures (including one inventive kobold (Andy) rocketing himself into the ceiling on extendo-legs, and another quizzical kobold (Ellen) thinking herself to death trying to read a book) – finding the leaf and running it back to the cave to force it down Gitvis’s gullet! She promptly did a big fart and felt all better. XD Delightful stuff – I’m glad I rewatched it, it was a lot of fun.
B) The entirety of “Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion Reacts to Horny Comments” by IGN! A very short video of Neil Newbon reading people’s comments about the infamous “sex with Halsin in bear form” sex scene and how thirsty they are for his character Astarion, all in the Astarion voice. Very weird and goofy, but not a bad way to fill out the final few minutes of my workout. XD
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice had a little confrontation with the two ghouls in the sitting room where she ended up at the end of yesterday’s segment today, with one attempting to knife her while the other threatened her with a poker. I’d originally had Alice feed on both women during this segment (drinking from the knife-wielder to stop her trying to stab her, and then from the poker-wielder after the woman volunteered some blood to avoid having it taken forcibly), but after writing Alice noting how thin and fragile the one trying to stab her felt in her grip...well, it just felt like having her then drink their blood was a little too mean. So she just talked to them this time – assuring them that she meant no harm (they seemed dubious), asking if they’d seen Grout recently (nope), and letting them know the way outside was clear if they wanted to escape (they were immediately like “no thanks, we’re good here,” to Alice’s grief). And asking their names, which yielded the numbers “6768” (poker) and “6789” (knife). Alice is pretty much set on trying to kill Grout once she finds him now, as you might expect. *nods* I left off with her preparing to listen to another one of Grout’s audiotapes – tomorrow, we hear the tape and see her reaction! I bet you she’s not going to like it!
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check plus, as I managed to get in two videos tonight instead of just one –
A) First up, we had “SIMS 4 FAIRIES PACK OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED! (+ New World Details)” by onlyabidoang! Featuring Abi talking about the confirmation of the “fairy” occult coming to Sims 4 as per a teaser showing a fairy house with a party going on inside at the end of their latest livestream; the “Something Is Growing” website EA put up that’s been gradually releasing new info about the pack over the past couple of days (such as the world included being called Innisgreen, which will have three neighborhoods, including an enchanted forest); and his own thoughts about what features the new occult life state might have (he’s pretty sure it’ll feature a proper skill tree, and he HOPES that fairies in this generation of the game will have more of a connection to gardening and less of a tendency to pull annoying pranks, like they did in The Sims 3: Supernatural. And also that the small form gets a proper showing instead of just being a glowing ball of light. And that fairies will have the ability to properly fly instead of just teleport around. ...Abi, you DO remember this is EA, right?) It was an interesting little sum-up of what we know so far, what we think we know, and what he wants out of the new pack – though he was very clear that they should really be fixing some of the base game bugs, like “weather effects inside houses” and “save gave corruption,” first. *nods* Yeah, that WOULD be really nice, wouldn’t it? But again, EA… (Well, that and fixing bugs DOES take time, sadly.)
B) And second up, we had “Fun With Shorts: Farther Faster Safer” by Josh Way! A classic “this is not-so-secretly an ad for a product” short with a narrator talking a mile a minute about new faster and safer ways to go across the country (starting with cross-country trains before moving on to various types of airplanes, including a big old seaplane) and VERY PROMINENT shots of all these amazing vehicles being lubricated with Pennzoil Products. XD Fortunately, Josh was on hand to make the whole experience a little more amusing: comparing Los Angeles City Hall to an architectural LEGO set (and honestly, I HAVE seen LEGO sets that look like the City Hall pictured in the short); constantly declaring that all the planes on display were delayed for some reason; pretending to struggle to get a word in edgewise when the narrator kept going on and on about how awesome the seaplane was; and comparing the airplane lubricator guys at the end to ice cream truck salesmen (the outfits DID give that vibe)! Good stuff – always nice to see another short back on his channel! I’m fine with his movie reviews, but the riffs are why I stay. :P
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there was nothing to do over on Valice Multiverse, but I was able to ALMOST complete my Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) queue! We have:
A) A reblog of a cool screenshot of the Crockery from A:MR for Wednesday
B) A reblog of a gifset of Emily spinning around right before the climatic wedding at the end of Corpse Bride for Thursday
C) A reblog of some old Smiler OC fanart from “shenanigansz” that I liked for Friday
D) And a reblog of one of my old Song Saturday posts, featuring Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars,” for Saturday! This is the one that’s not QUITE done, as I didn’t get a chance to finish talking about how it’s now Valicer, nor the updated tags, but I figure I can do that tomorrow. :p
So yeah – very much ahead of the game there! And I’m thinking next week will be the Mega Ghostbusters AU, once I get some more stuff to go with it. *nods*
Other: Another nice day meant another afternoon playing beanbags after I got home from work – and unfortunately, I did worse today, being unable to win a single game despite finally starting to throw better. :( Dad had a pretty decent day by contrast, while Mom had a bad start but came back strong with back-to-back wins – she’s been throwing REALLY well lately, it’s kind of weird. XD Anyway, final scores were me 2-3-3; Dad W-2-2; and Mom 3-W-W. Hopefully if we play tomorrow (it’s supposed to be humid and possibly smoky from the Canadian wildfires) I’ll be able to claim one of those Ws for myself again!
*nods* Not too shabby, I suppose! And now I have to go to bed before my brain gets too keyed up to sleep, as it is trying to do right now. *shakehead* Night all!
